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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1918
Page
9
In a London scene a hotel elevator encounter reveals how women gain power and education during war. The piece argues that the war reforms gender roles, education, and work, forecasting a permanent shift toward fellowship between sexes and a transformed society.
Joe WT Shively resigns as clerk of the municipal court and will Tuesday depart for Columbus Ohio to enter the judge advocate department of the army as law stenographer and court reporter. This is his sixth attempt to enter the service after repeated rejections due to physical disability. His successor has not been named.
XL W. GC. AL VESPENS. YW. C. A. vespers at 4 p m Sunday with speaker Rev M I Jey music Emily Trevarthen hostesses Mrs Wheeler's class of First Presbyterian church
President Wilson approves the Defense Council plan to wear a brassard as a mourning emblem for relatives of service members who died. Dr Anni Howard Shaw submitted the suggestion. Red Cross chapters will supply the brassards through the national war council at no charge. The emblem features a black arm band and a gold star, embroidered with the word mourning, to honor each fallen family.
Waterloo Ministerial association plans October as a church campaign with weekly themes. Rally day October 5 features Sunday school and a united front slogan. October 13 patriotic day includes sermons, October 20 Waterloo day covers civic themes, October 27 keep the home fires burning. A Sunday school superintendents meeting is set for Monday at 7:20 p.m. at the Y.M.C.A.
Lieut. S. Jacobson of Ta. Condler has been promoted to captain, delighting his parents Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jacobson. He formerly served as a lieutenant at the Wet Snelling camp and recently joined the Dodge light division in transit to England, with hopes of reaching France.
Women volunteers in Iowa and national committees coordinate with Mrs. FW B Whitley to enroll candidates through Mrs J G Ridenour. The War Department aims to start training as soon as possible and asks applicants to enroll immediately, noting some early enrollees await training assignments from Washington. The notice closes with an unrelated Brunswick ad mention.
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